Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      My personal motto comes from the medicine bottles: "Keep away from children."

     Which oughtta do it.      Still, if folks would like to read more about these characters, the badger, the frog, and the mouse first showed up during the composition of my collection Plague Year Poems . Those are the 443 daily poems I wrote from March 22, 2020 till June 7, 2021, while the public library where I work was closed to the public for the coronavirus pandemic. The link in the previous sentence will take an interested reader to the entire collection's table of contents, but for the abovementioned characters, the badger first appears in a sequence that starts with poem #149 from August 17th, 2020 and runs for another 12 or 13 poems.      She then returns when I'm considering quitting the daily poem thing at the one-year mark. That sequence starts with poem #337 from February 21st, 2021 and crashes on through to the actual first anniversary of the the whole thing on March 21st, 2021. Spoi...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Lemme send folks back to page 3 of our 121st storyline, " The Transitive Property ," for a suggested image of what the inside of Lord Quetzal's temple on Cloud Forest might look like. The image in your imagination, of course, is much better than anything you'll see here, however...

The Terebinth Story Archive      Nothing like a little adversarial villanelle to get at the root of the issue, I always say! And by "always," I of course mean "seldom"...